Press & Awards

MIR’s one-of-a-kind exploration of the Russian space program has gotten a starring role in several media outlets recently, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, leading Spanish-language travel magazine Conocedores, the Matador Network, and the Lonely Planet blog.Read the full articles on the webs... Read More

Luxury Travel Advisor, a leading publication covering “the latest news and trends in luxury travel,” advises adding MIR’s new small group journey From the Heavenly Tien Shan to the High Pamirs to your 2019 bucket list. The 18-day tour, led by veteran MIR tour leader Michel Behar, guides travel... Read More

Luxury Standard Magazine, a limited edition publication focusing on luxury travel and lifestyle trends for men, featured an article about MIR’s popular Inside the Russian Space Program tour, where travelers spend a week in Moscow and on the remote Kazakh steppe going behind-the-scenes of Russia’... Read More

AFAR Magazine and MSN.com are spotlighting MIR’s Inside the Russian Space Program tour in an article entitled, “Train Like a Russian Cosmonaut on This Dream Trip for Space Nerds.”Fifty years ago, American civilians could only dream of getting a behind-the-scenes look at the Soviet space progra... Read More

Insider Travel Report, a travel industry website that offers “analysis of key issues affecting travel agents, better perspective on the industry, and more video content than any other website in the field,” recently wrote a feature piece on MIR’s out-of-this-world tour, Inside the Russian Spac... Read More

MIR’s Director of Sales, Joanna Millick, was quoted in an August 22 New York Times article about travel to Montenegro. The tiny Balkan country, still little-known to most Americans, has started to gain more and more recognition in the travel world for its dramatic natural scenery, beautiful beache... Read More

Luxe Beat Magazine recently rounded up its favorite picks for adventure travel tours for 2019, and MIR’s culinary focused offering, A Taste of Georgia: Wine, Cuisine & Culture, made the cut. According to the article, a newly released travel industry survey revealed that “adventure travel is not ... Read More

Taking the #10 spot in a round-up article featured in the magazine’s July 2018 issue, National Geographic Traveler listed MIR’s Backstreets & Bazaars of Uzbekistan small group tour among its collection of “the very best trips” to take in Asia. The magazine not only sought out “unique tours... Read More

The travel editors at the St. Louis Dispatch recently selected MIR’s Balkan Odyssey: Crossroads of Cultures small group tour as their pick for “Trip of the Week.” Featured in the paper’s Sunday travel section, the piece sums up the tour’s signature highlights, which include “a Roman amph... Read More

The Balkans are getting some much-deserved attention in the Sunday Travel section of several prestigious media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the L.A. Times, and the San Diego Union Tribune, all of which are spotlighting MIR’s Balkan Odyssey: Crossroads of Cultures smal... Read More